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This is an utterly delightful young woman who was born Brittany but has chosen to be Bee. She is a staff member at PIP Coffee & Clay, where I do pottery-making frequently.

True to her name, Bee is always busy, at the pug mill or in the kiln room, helping potters and keeping things flowing. Her philosophy of life is “Relax and be kind.” She would have fit right in at Woodstock, though it occurred long before she was born.

But what truly endears me to Bee is that she proudly displays a visual pun in the form of tattoos just above her knees. And the Bee’s Knees is such an apt description of this delightful lady. Long may she buzz!

egg

i intend today to throw
most of an egg on a potter’s wheel
and then sculpt a hummingbird

when the almost-egg is leather hard
I intend to cut its base at a bias
to give it a jaunty axial tilt
then perch the hummingbird
at its apex
absurdly out of scale
with the huge egg
it is valiantly attempting
to incubate

it may show how heroic
motherhood is
or how ridiculous
life is

the egg may have cutouts
to give it a windowed interior
or embossing
to give it a muralesque exterior

it is impossible to say yet
sometimes we just have to see
what happens
when it hatches